94 年 - 94年台北市國中教師甄試英文科#18068

1.21. Advances in technology occur at such a fast pace that
dictionaries have difficulty incorporating the __________ that
emerge as names for new inventions.
(A) clichés (B) neologisms
(C) euphemisms (D) compensations

2.22. The mayor felt an __________ with all who suffered; their pains
were his pains.
(A) import (B) oblivion (C) ecstasy (D) affinity

3.23. A mystery unsolved, subject to endless speculation, has the
power to haunt us as long as memory persists, as long as the
human animal retains its power to sip Chardonnay and __________
life’s enigmas.
(A) motivate (B) contemplate (C) dispose (D) dispense

4.24. Two giant toads were married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in
eastern India by villagers hoping to __________ the rain gods and
end a dry spell.
(A) proscribe (B) initiate (C) propitiate (D) cater

5.25. More than a fifth of the planet’s bird species face extinction as
humans venture further into their habitats and introduce
alien __________ .
(A) dwellers (B) predators (C) drifters (D) mariners

6.26. Some soldiers are __________ kids. A general was afraid these
men in uniform are incapable of fighting.
(A) tolerated (B) pampered (C) abandoned (D) smothered

7.27. The U.S. has raised the possibility of __________ more
international troops to Haiti ahead of general elections for
returning the Caribbean country to stability.
(A) dispersing (B) extracting
(C) dispatching (D) extinguishing

8.28. While it is not quite the days of the dot-com boom, when
companies lure graduates with promises of six-figure salaries
and ping-pong tables in the workplace, corporate __________ are
once again combing campuses for the best of the Class of 2005.
(A) advisors (B) employees (C) recruiters (D) defendants

9.29. In the deciding game that stayed close the entire 48 minutes, the
Detroit Pistons __________ their experience and played with
calmness and poise down the stretch to defeat the Miami Heat 88-82.
(A) granted (B) pleaded (C) assembled (D) summoned

10.30. __________ of high level Chinese officials are relatively rare, but
they have been the source of valuable intelligence about the
communist regime and an embarrassment to Beijing.
(A) Defections (B) Fractions
(C) Discriminations (D) Improvisations

11.31. Because the man was an __________ criminal, he was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
(A) incorrigible (B) incipient
(C) infallible (D) indigenous

12.32. Mrs. Jones was awarded $15,000 monthly __________ by the court
when she was divorced from her husband.
(A) alimony (B) reticence (C) nepotism (D) ordinance

13.33. The invention of the radio has helped propagandists to __________
their favorite doctrines very easily.
(A) mutilate (B) disseminate
(C) garnish (D) liquidate

14.34. The student read many recondite books in order to obtain the
material for his scholarly thesis.
(A) profound (B) relevant
(C) literate (D) conclusive

15.35. In their stories of the trial, the reporters ridiculed the
magniloquent speeches of the defense attorney.
(A) boastful (B) unplanned
(C) brilliant (D) sentimental

16.36. At least 30 people have been killed in the latest accident to befall
China’s notoriously unsafe mining industry, officials and state
media reported.
(A) conspire (B) happen to
(C) furnish (D) conduce to

18.38. I realized belatedly that staying in the village might be a better
option in the summer, with a rental car, than in the fall, when I
was there.
(A) in advance (B) actually
(C) too late (D) suddenly

19.39. I was drawn to their Heart of France language school by its
user-friendly website, which opens with a beautiful panoramic
view of the hilltop town surrounded by vineyards.
(A) palpable (B) chronic
(C) complete (D) original

20.40. Persuading Japanese bureaucrats and businessmen to loosen their
collars and shed their cravats may prove tough if the first day of
a government “Cool Biz” campaign to save energy and fight
global warming is anything to go by.
(A) sleeves (B) shirts
(C) garments (D) neckties

21.Comics in America have broadened their appeal by marketing
to adults. Prior to World War II, usually only 41 bought
comics. During World War II, the comic book industry in the
United States began to undergo a major change. When the war
started, the government 42 the comics industry in order to take
advantage of their powerful propaganda effects, regulating 43
for purposes of military defense. By the time the war was over, thetaste for comic books 44 the adult population. Publishers
from this point on expanded this 45 of the market, which was
to become the largest sales increase in the history of the comics
industry.
The editor of Exciting Comics, Ed O’Donnell, was important in
extending the success of this marketing drive. He reorganized
comic drawing to encourage artists’ innovation. The market had
declined slightly since the late forties. O’Donnell, against
conventions, hired 46 illustrators. He abandoned the
low-budget publication, a step considered risky to his peers in the
publication industry; however, his 47 environment for artistic
creation eventually proved successful. Kenny Barby was one of the
artists that helped 48 the most innovative titles to come out of
Exciting Comics. He insisted on revising the concept of the comic
book 49 ; he proposed to create characters designed to capture
markets that had previously not been successfully 50 by comic
books. This revolutionary idea laid the foundation for the now
thriving market for sophisticated adult-oriented comic books.
【題組】41.
(A) males (B) civilians (C) officials (D) adolescents

22.【題組】42. (A) initiated (B) evaluated (C) subsidized (D) mitigated

23.43. (A) us (B) you (C) them (D) which

24.Comics in America have broadened their appeal by marketing
to adults. Prior to World War II, usually only 41 bought
comics. During World War II, the comic book industry in the
United States began to undergo a major change. When the war
started, the government 42 the comics industry in order to take
advantage of their powerful propaganda effects, regulating 43
for purposes of military defense. By the time the war was over, thetaste for comic books 44 the adult population. Publishers
from this point on expanded this 45 of the market, which was
to become the largest sales increase in the history of the comics
industry.
The editor of Exciting Comics, Ed O’Donnell, was important in
extending the success of this marketing drive. He reorganized
comic drawing to encourage artists’ innovation. The market had
declined slightly since the late forties. O’Donnell, against
conventions, hired 46 illustrators. He abandoned the
low-budget publication, a step considered risky to his peers in the
publication industry; however, his 47 environment for artistic
creation eventually proved successful. Kenny Barby was one of the
artists that helped 48 the most innovative titles to come out of
Exciting Comics. He insisted on revising the concept of the comic
book 49 ; he proposed to create characters designed to capture
markets that had previously not been successfully 50 by comic
books. This revolutionary idea laid the foundation for the now
thriving market for sophisticated adult-oriented comic books.
【題組】44. (A) reached (B) had reached
(C) have reached (D) having reached

31.If you already feel inside you the urge of self-expression, then
the first thing that you have to do is to study the means of expressing
yourself. You will have to study very carefully the English
language and especially its grammar. Although most people do not
understand the art of good writing, they unconsciously assimilate
more easily ideas which are expressed in correct English. It should
be pointed out also that good English is not necessarily flowery
English, and the simple phrase—which looks so easy to write—is
often the most difficult to construct. I cannot stress too strongly the
desirability of writing your sentences word by word and not phrase
by phrase. Many writers fail to get their ideas across to the public
solely because they use expressions whose meaning has been killed
by repetition.
【題組】51. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(A) The Curse of Triteness
(B) The Art of Writing
(C) Flowery English: Its Value
(D) Self-expression: An Essential to Writing

33.【題組】53. Correct English, according to the passage, _______.
(A) stresses use of flowery language
(B) assists understanding of ideas
(C) is best secured through repetition
(D) is secured through trite phrases

34.Many observers have commented on what seems to be the fact
that fear plays a much smaller part than we should think it must in
the life of an animal which lives dangerously. Terror he can know,
and perhaps he knows it frequently. But it seems to last only a little
longer than the immediate danger it helps him to avoid, instead of
lingering, as in the human being it does, until it becomes a burden
and a threat. The frightened bird resumes his song as soon as
danger has passed and so does the frightened rabbit his games. It is
almost as if they knew that “cowards die many times before their
deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
【題組】54. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(A) Animal Traits
(B) Fear in Animals
(C) The Nature of Courage
(D) A Comparison of Fear and Terror

35.【題組】55. The writer of the passage believes that _______.
(A) terror is a permanent form of fear
(B) fear is almost unknown in animals
(C) animals live less dangerously than men
(D) animals remember fear only a short time

36.【題組】56. “Cowards die many times before their deaths” most likely
means _______ .
(A) the coward has several lives
(B) cowards many times wish they were dead
(C) many times the coward is almost caught in his misdeeds
(D) the coward’s frequent fears are often as bad as death

37.Any young writer who may imagine that the power of clear and
concise literary expression comes by nature, cannot do better than
study in Goldsmith’s writings the continual and minute alternations
which the author considered necessary even after the first
edition—sometimes when the second and third editions had been
published. Many of these, especially in the poetical works, were
merely improvements in sound, as suggested by a singularly
sensitive ear. But the majority of the omissions and corrections were
prompted by a careful taste, which abhorred everything redundant or
slovenly. The English people are very fond of good English, and thus
it is that couplets from “The Traveler” and “The Deserted Village”
have come into the common stock of our language, and that
sometimes not so much on account of the ideas they convey as
through their singular precision of epithet and musical sound.
【題組】57. According to the passage, Goldsmith avoided _______ .
(A) criticism (B) omissions
(C) alternations (D) redundancy

39.【題組】59. According to the author, by studying the work of
Goldsmith, _______ .
(A) we learn to avoid making alternations
(B) we learn to avoid common language
(C) we see the importance of euphony in poetry
(D) we see the necessity for avoiding errors in first editions

40.【題組】60. According to the passage, Goldsmith made changes in this work
because _______ .
(A) his work was reprinted
(B) his language lacked exuberance
(C) he was sensitive to criticism
(D) he was sensitive to the musical sound of words